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BMC Software Appoints Former IBM Executive Tom Bishop as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Industry Innovator to Lead Future Technology Direction and Vision of BMC Atrium; the Architectural Core of Business Service Management (BSM) HOUSTON, May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BMC Software, Inc. (NYSE:BMC), a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, today announced that Tom Bishop has joined its executive management team as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). A recognized and award-winning CTO, Bishop will be responsible for product vision and direction at BMC Software, while continuing to drive breakthrough innovations. Most recently, Bishop served as CTO of VIEO, Inc. where he was named CTO of the Year by InfoWorld magazine, and is the former CTO of IBM Tivoli. Central to Bishop's responsibilities will be advancing Atrium, the company's innovative open-architected foundation for its Business Service Management (BSM) solutions. "Tom Bishop is a strong complement to Ariel Gordon in the BMC CTO office. He is a well-respected technologist and innovator with a proven track record of leadership," said Bob Beauchamp, BMC Software president and CEO. "Given Tom's deep understanding of the enterprise management software market, along with his proven leadership skills, he is the ideal person to drive the implementation of our Routes to Value program and the continuing growth of BMC Software's Business Service Management strategy." Bishop brings more than 20 years of industry experience and has served in a variety of senior technology and strategist roles throughout his career. He is well known as a technology innovator, holding nine patents in fault tolerant computing and leading the development of industry standards such as the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and POSIX. As CTO of VIEO, Inc., Bishop pioneered the architecture and design of an applications-focused, quality of service-oriented enterprise systems management solution. During his tenure as CTO at IBM Tivoli, Bishop created and led Tivoli's distributed systems management technology and products. Bishop holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Cornell University. "I am thrilled to join BMC Software's executive leadership team and look forward to working with the team to drive the future innovation and technology of the company," said Tom Bishop, BMC Software vice president and CTO. "The enterprise management space is facing a pivotal moment and BMC Software has helped lead it there. I am excited to be a member of the team that steers the future direction of the BSM vision and sets the path for the rest of the enterprise management space." Atrium at the Core of Business Service Management At the heart of the future direction of the BSM vision for BMC Software is the implementation of the Atrium foundation. BMC Software is committed to making significant investments in the common enabling technologies that support its core BSM solutions, and has branded those technologies under the BMC Atrium name. BMC Atrium is an open-architected foundation that enables information sharing and centralized management across BMC Software solutions. As the core infrastructure for Business Service Management Routes to Value, BMC Atrium provides a common data repository, shared service model, and unified user and reporting interfaces to accelerate attainment of BSM. By delivering this common set of infrastructure services, BMC Atrium empowers organizations to better control the implementation and ongoing management of their IT environment. The BMC Atrium CMDB, which shipped in January, was the first BMC Atrium deliverable to support this commitment. The BMC Atrium CMDB leverages patent pending technology that creates a single, federated enterprise CMDB that addresses IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices, ensures data consistency, and integrates and automates service management processes. BMC Atrium CMDB is a purpose-built, ITIL inspired CMDB, addressing ITIL requirement for a single, enterprise CMDB to ensure data consistency and simplify integration between differing service management processes. The other components of BMC Atrium are: * BMC Atrium Service Model, which maintains mappings between configuration items stored in the CMDB and the business services they support. * BMC Atrium View, which provides a common set of dashboards and views for the different groups that make up IT to enable IT organizations to better manage and support the IT infrastructure. * BMC Atrium Reporting, which aggregates information across process areas by linking multiple IT data sources and applications to create a consolidated set of data to drive IT reporting. BMC Atrium Reporting provides the knowledge across the organization to more effectively respond to business change and ensure that IT changes are controlled, calculated, and based on reliable information. * BMC Web Services, which provides a shared Web Services vocabulary and communication mechanism for interfacing with BMC Software solutions. Named 'Most Influential' product of the year by Network Magazine, BMC Atrium is available now and ships with several BMC Software solutions. As new versions of BMC Software products become available, they will continue to leverage the latest BMC Atrium capabilities. About BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and fiscal 2004 revenues of more than $1.4 billion. For more information about BMC Software, visit http://www.bmc.com/ . For additional information on BSM, visit http://www.bmc.com/bsm . BMC Software, the BMC Software logos, and all other BMC Software product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software, Inc. 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